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Dear Reader,

Welcome to Canyon Springs! When people think of Arizona, most often saguaro cacti, palm trees and sizzling temperatures come to mind. But there's a huge part of the state at a more-than-mile-high elevation, populated by one of the largest ponderosa pine forests in the world, where a hundred inches of snow a year isn't uncommon.

That's the setting of the fictitious small town Meg and Joe both want to call home. The place where both must learn to trust each other and trust that God's plan for them goes far beyond anything they could ever hope and dream for themselves.

While I haven't experienced, as Meg does, the fearful possibility of cancer returning, I have lost a dear friend to melanoma. And a decade ago I faced a time of uncertain health issues myself, so I know what it's like to choose to trust God. To live each day not knowing if there would be a tomorrow in the here and now. Words can't express the depth of my thankfulness that I could hold on to the reassurance that no matter what happened, I'd be in God's loving hands for all eternity.

According to the American Cancer Society Web site, over 60,000 new cases of melanoma were estimated for 2008, and over 8,000 people die of the disease each year. The lifetime risk of getting it is about 1 in 50 for whites, 1 in 1,000 for blacks and 1 in 200 for Hispanics. So do yourself and your family a favor—read up on prevention and self-examination. Early detection is the key to long-term survival. Thank you for reading my very first published book, Dreaming of Home. I'd love to hear from readers, so please contact me via e-mail at glynna@glynnakaye.com or c/o Steeple Hill Books, 233 Broadway, Suite 1001, New York, NY 10279. Please also visit my Web site at www.glynnakaye.com.

Glynna Kaye